Texts: Question 5
4.16 pts
Habituation and recovery research shows that 6- to 12-month-olds can
structure objects into meaningful categories like food items, furniture, birds, animals, kitchen utensils, and spatial location.
They can organize their physical worlds but cannot yet categorize their emotional and social worlds.
They can only sort items into one or two basic categories.
They cannot sort items nearly as well as older adolescents and adults.
Question 6
4.16 pts
In one study, 2 1/2-year-olds were unable to use a scale model of a room to find a toy hidden in the room that the model represented. This is because young preschoolers have difficulty with
analogical problem solving.
transitive inference.
dual representation.
deferred imitation.